The Property

Parkdale is located 25 minutes northwest of the thriving city of Dubbo, 25 minutes from Narromine and 30 minutes to Collie ... making the property ideally located.

Parkdale is a well balanced property of 12,000 acres with a mixture of open soft black soils to red clay and red loam slopes. Shade timber has been left for stock and the property is watered by ample ground tanks and several bores to supplement water requirements. There are also two creeks that traverse the property adding shade timber and watering points to the already well watered paddocks. The property is managed on a rotational grazing system where country is spelled regularly to allow for natural grasses and herbages to establish. Parkdale has 200,000 established salt bush plants and will continue to establish 50,000 annually until we get to 600,000 plants on 1,000 acres. This will be sufficient to graze 5,000 adult sheep for 12 months in a normal season and 8 months in a moderate drought. The salt bush will also give shelter for lambing ewes.

Robert and Scott own Warrego Station (comprising of Birrimba, The Cato and Winrae) at Enngonia and Barringun where they operate 82,000 acres. Conservatively carrying 5,000 breeding ewes with surplus feed being agisted out to cattle when seasons permit. Up to 15,000 acres can go under water in a large flood, most years about 1,500 acres of beneficial flooding. The remainder of the area is split between heavy clay, growing beneficial herbages and red country, that is important in very wet and dry times.

There is also 3,000 acres at 'Weona Park' (Collie) which is used for finishing surplus sheep from Warrego Station.